Just what is it about churches that make people wary of taking a look inside? Then, even if they do venture in, they often whizz round taking all of 10 minutes before dashing out again. You’ve promoted your local church as a place to enjoy some of the best of our medieval heritage and as…
Peace and tranquility. When did that become such a novel experience? I’m old enough to recall sitting as a child with my mum at a neighbour’s house when they weren’t afraid of sitting in silence and all you could hear was the gentle tock ….tock ….of the clock on the wall. Traditionally, rural folk didn’t feel…
It seems that some artefacts will have to be removed from churches under new guidance issued by the C of E on “contested heritage”, notably if they have links to slavery. Much soul-searching will need to take place within parishes to decide whether people coming into their churches might feel unwelcome due to objects that…
IF you’ve got it, flaunt it. While today it is the nouveau riche who tend to have the showiest cars and the largest hot tubs, back in the 17th century it was the nobility too that liked to show off, only quite often it was posthumously. Take the £200 paid to master mason Nicholas Stone in…
